atw: Re: First impressions of Google Wave?
- From: "Christine Kent" <cmkentau@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:18:10 +1100
Well boys.
It might just be as simple as changing your viewing habits. ;-) (It was
Friday yesterday.)
http://www.naturalnews.com/027364_internet_pandemic_traffic.html
From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Brian Clarke
Sent: Saturday, 31 October 2009 11:54 AM
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Re: First impressions of Google Wave?
Hello Geoffrey,
There is no simple way to answer your question.
The nearest anyone could get would be to ask all the electricity
distribution authorities, because people setting up server farms almost
always ask for specially conditioned mains supply. Then perhaps, under the
Freedom of Information Act, you could ask to see the electricity consumption
details going back to year dot. That would give you a gross consumption
figure. How anyone would tease out what electricity consumption is
economically valuable from what is purely entertaining to people who have
too much time and too little intelligence would require a crystal ball of as
yet unknown dimensions. And how do you measure the economic value of porn
and paedophilia sites?
As an electrical engineer, I am appalled by the amount of energy wasted in
leaving heating, lighting and ventilation [HLV] on in office blocks when
there is no-one around except the security and janitorial staff. I suspect
the amount of un-needed HLV consumption probably exceeds that used in
supporting all server farms, of any colour. On each floor of a building, a
simple PIR detector could assess whether there was any warm body and whether
that warm body was moving as the basis for turning the HLV off or at least
to a hibernation level. Use a minimum energy threshold, say 75 W, and a 5-s
pulse to avoid nuisance power surges as the mice come out to play. The same
kind of sensing could be used for cutting down power consumption in central
servers; eg, after say 1900 hours, turn off or hibernate all servers that
have not received a data request for 5 s. Perhaps add intelligent key word
querying to determine whether each query is economically valuable or mere
trivia - like Facebook, spam, twotter or journalistic hacking.
Agreed that the electronic media have been hijacked by stuff close to faecal
value. Still, there are probably some lonely people out there whom religion
no longer opiates. Who is to decide whether economics is the new religion of
choice for the masses? I have used 'economics' as an Aunt Sally throughout -
you could substitute art, literature, sport, cinema ... and get the same
argument.
Cheers,
Brian.
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